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Jean Genet

"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."

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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."

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Asa Don Brown

"Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know."

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Asa Don Brown

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

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Asa Don Brown

"Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back."

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Asa Don Brown

"Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is."

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Asa Don Brown

"You should've run faster, Lexi. You should've stayed far away from the Dark. But most of all, you should never have fallen for your Dragon King. It'll only bring you misery and death. Humans and Kings were never meant to mix."

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Asa Don Brown

"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."

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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger."
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"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
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"Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."
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"Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun."
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"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."
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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
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"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
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